Local Arts

On Saturday, Oct. 25, the Lamont Cranston Quartet (LCQ) is bringing an evening of music and laughter to the Gibsons Heritage Playhouse in a concert called Songs You Know By Heart.

Suzie LeBlanc's voice has been called "dulcet, clear and free." Her songbook ranges from 17th century Baroque opera to folk tunes reflecting her Acadian-Canadian heritage.

Terry Barker's latest book, Last Chance This Life: A Hundred Letters, reveals a profoundly caring and thoughtful side of Barker that his public rarely sees. "I feel as if I'm running naked through a room full of strangers," the author said.

Mary Swan, whose début novel, The Boys in the Trees, is on the Scotiabank Giller Prize short list, will make her Coast début at 8 p.m., Friday, Oct. 24, at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt.

Award-winning folk music legend Penny Lang, Sunshine Coast Festival of the Performing Arts vocal award recipient Edmund Arceo and accomplished mezzo soprano Celia Howard perform their favourite songs in a fundraising concert for the Abbeyfield House

Gibsons artist Cindy Riach has a way with water. Most of her oil paintings to be shown on Oct. 18 at the Westwind Gallery are of local, easily recognizable settings, many of them capturing reflections or a view from the water.

The Gibsons United Green Team pulled off a successful inaugural Environmental Film Festival. On Friday, Oct. 3, viewers packed the Gibsons Heritage Playhouse to watch the amazing movie FLOW: For the Love of Water, just released a few weeks ago.

Cover, a contemporary dark comedy by Gibsons playwright David King, premieres today (Oct. 3) at the Presentation House Theatre in North Vancouver, performed by Sea Theatre.

A dazzling new section to her artist's studio bringing its total size up to 2,800 square feet, a client list of nearly 1,000 and sandwich service for 600 people: it's all in a lifetime's work for Garden Bay artist Motoko.

A few new venues, a new group of organizers, and old, familiar magic surrounded the Pender Harbour Jazz Festival this year as it celebrated its 12th annual event.